Welcome to the global HIV Policy Watch website. Revising policies and changing service delivery to reflect the latest science and public health practice is critical for the HIV response. You will find the latest published official national HIV treatment policies. Please be aware that there are many countries that may have reported or announced changes in national HIV policy without issuing revised guidelines or official circulars -- we show these countries on a separate map since these are countries that may issue official guidelines soon.

The website was updated on June 15, 2017 with new or updated policies from India, Jamaica, Lao PDR, Liberia, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines and Zimbabwe.

To stay up-to-date and provide readers with the latest official published policies, our site relies on our members and has been built through frequent internet searches and direct contributions from viewers like you. Please submit any missing updated published national HIV policies and/or official circulars using the button below.

Thank you for helping us to build this site-we sincerely appreciate everyone's efforts to make this the world's largest crowd-sourced HIV treatment policy data bank.

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June 15, 2017

This map follows WHO recommended standards--the boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by IAPAC

Leadership Message

“Reaching 15 million people with antiretroviral therapy is one of the greatest achievements in the history of global health, financing, and development… How we reached 15 million people is an amazing story of what is possible when the world unites, of what happens when the sum of the parts creates something bigger than any one country or group could have imagined.”

Michel Sidibé

UNAIDS Executive Director, United Nations Under-Secretary-General

“Policy matters. Rapidly translating the science around treatment into policy helps governments and the community accelerate access to treatment which is now proven to keep people healthy and prevent the spread of HIV. We cannot afford to use the science of years past to address an epidemic that is happening now — this site is an important means to monitor our collective progress to rapidly translate the new science around treatment into policy and action.”

Julio Montaner

Director, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia

“PEPFAR remains steadfast through its Human Rights Agenda to eliminate barriers to HIV services, including stigma and discrimination, for all people. We support the UNAIDS 90-90-90 treatment target and will focus our resources to ensure 90 percent of the people in high-burden areas have access to treatment by 2020. By working together we are confident that we can translate the new science that earlier treatment prevents illness, deaths and transmission into improved access to treatment for people living with HIV.”

Ambassador Deborah L. Birx

U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator & U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy

Leadership Message

“Ending the AIDS epidemic is not just aboutpills – it is about restoring dignity and respecting the human rights of everysingle person. It is about ending exclusion… This is our pivotal moment to prove we have a solid plan to achieve the end of the AIDS epidemic.”

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For 2010 to the present, using the internet we identified 52 national care continuum that represented 59% of the 2013 global estimate of people living with HIV.We update the search on a quarterly basis and also incorporate newly published continuum as they become available in the public domain (please send and/or see the website submission tab if you have a new public domain continuum to bring to our attention).

We reviewed the methodology for collecting data on or estimating the following four key steps in the treatment cascade: 1. Estimated number of people living with HIV, 2. Estimated number of people living with HIV diagnosed as HIV-positive, 3. Estimated number of people living with HIV receiving ART, and 4. Estimated number of people living with HIV with suppressed or undetectable viral load.